My website (not launched yet, it's under construction) will have a page containing my favourite covers + explanations... I will post the URL once the site is online, so that you can read my comments per picture.

Here's some pictures already though:

Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles

Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven up here(amazing how good title and picture suit)

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This is a RECORD COVER. This writing is the DESIGN upon therecord cover. The DESIGN is to help SELL the record. We hopeto draw your attention to it and encourage you to pick it up.When you have done that maybe you'll be persuaded to listen tothe music - in this case XTC's Go 2 album. Then we want youto BUY it. The idea being that the more of you that buy thisrecord the more money Virgin Records, the manager Ian Reid andXTC themselves will make. To the aforementioned this is knownas PLEASURE. A good cover DESIGN is one that attracts morebuyers and gives more pleasure. This writing is trying to pullyou in much like an eye-catching picture. It is designed to getyou to READ IT. This is called luring the VICTIM, and you arethe VICTIM. But if you have a free mind you should STOP READINGNOW! because all we are attempting to do is to get you to readon. Yet this is a DOUBLE BIND because if you indeed stop you'llbe doing what we tell you, and if you read on you'll be doing whatwe've wanted all along. And the more you read on the more you'refalling for this simple device of telling you exactly how a goodcommercial design works. They're TRICKS and this is the worstTRICK of all since it's describing the TRICK whilst trying toTRICK you, and if you've read this far then you're TRICKED butyou wouldn't have known this unless you'd read this far. Atleast we're telling you directly instead of seducing you witha beautiful or haunting visual that may never tell you. We'reletting you know that you ought to buy this record because inessence it's a PRODUCT and PRODUCTS are to be consumed and youare a consumer and this is a good PRODUCT. We could havewritten the band's name in special lettering so that it stoodout and you'd see it before you'd read any of this writing andpossibly have bought it anyway. What we are really suggestingis that you are FOOLISH to buy or not buy an album merely as aconsequence of the design on its cover. This is a con becauseif you agree then you'll probably like this writing - which isthe cover design - and hence the album inside. But we've justwarned you against that. The con is a con. A good cover designcould be considered as one that gets you to buy the record, butthat never actually happens to YOU because YOU know it's just adesign for the cover. And this is the RECORD COVER.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->This is a RECORD COVER. This writing is the DESIGN upon therecord cover. The DESIGN is to help SELL the record. We hopeto draw your attention to it and encourage you to pick it up.When you have done that maybe you'll be persuaded to listen tothe music - in this case XTC's Go 2 album. Then we want youto BUY it. The idea being that the more of you that buy thisrecord the more money Virgin Records, the manager Ian Reid andXTC themselves will make. To the aforementioned this is knownas PLEASURE. A good cover DESIGN is one that attracts morebuyers and gives more pleasure. This writing is trying to pullyou in much like an eye-catching picture. It is designed to getyou to READ IT. This is called luring the VICTIM, and you arethe VICTIM. But if you have a free mind you should STOP READINGNOW! because all we are attempting to do is to get you to readon. Yet this is a DOUBLE BIND because if you indeed stop you'llbe doing what we tell you, and if you read on you'll be doing whatwe've wanted all along. And the more you read on the more you'refalling for this simple device of telling you exactly how a goodcommercial design works. They're TRICKS and this is the worstTRICK of all since it's describing the TRICK whilst trying toTRICK you, and if you've read this far then you're TRICKED butyou wouldn't have known this unless you'd read this far. Atleast we're telling you directly instead of seducing you witha beautiful or haunting visual that may never tell you. We'reletting you know that you ought to buy this record because inessence it's a PRODUCT and PRODUCTS are to be consumed and youare a consumer and this is a good PRODUCT. We could havewritten the band's name in special lettering so that it stoodout and you'd see it before you'd read any of this writing andpossibly have bought it anyway. What we are really suggestingis that you are FOOLISH to buy or not buy an album merely as aconsequence of the design on its cover. This is a con becauseif you agree then you'll probably like this writing - which isthe cover design - and hence the album inside. But we've justwarned you against that. The con is a con. A good cover designcould be considered as one that gets you to buy the record, butthat never actually happens to YOU because YOU know it's just adesign for the cover. And this is the RECORD COVER.

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Thats great and amazingly clever.. I'd probably stop to read it all aswell. what album is it for?